Right, because flashlights aren’t the nighttime equivalent of a zombie dinner bell at all.
i am pretty sure that they said Hershels farm was several miles away from the FEMA trailer/school. Six miles maybe?
Darryl is made of awesome. I told my husband, “When the zombie apocalypse comes, we’re finding *that *guy.”
Apparently no one on the farm is O neg. This really, really annoys me for some reason. It doesn’t all have to be Rick being bled, people!
Yeah, think Otis said 5.
Walkers are slow, but they don’t get tired and don’t have to stop to hydrate or eat.
They could walk that far. I bet a steady, plodding pace with no need to stop, you could walk 5 miles in a shorter time than you’d think.
How far were they from Atlanta? That small herd came and got them there, were they supposed to all be from that area or do you think they came from the town?
Do you think the large group that was walking around on the highway just disappeared?
All just honest questions, not trying to be snarky.
There is no real sound to cover any noise with everything shut down. No planes, no cars, no real machinery running.
I am guessing a gunshot or multiple gun shots can be heard quite a distance, especially out on the country like that.
Just guess I am wondering if that herd they encountered will come back to see them.
I have no idea what blood type I am.
I always think that when I see movies and people know right off the bat.
No idea at all.
I should ask sometime.
Do most of you people know this? Maybe the people at the farm are like me and don’t know?
And, yeah, Daryl is a great character. Really interesting story he has, so far. Seems to be getting more fleshed out as the season moves on.
A healthy person can walk a mile in 15-20 minutes. A zombie I bet would take at least twice that long. Maybe longer. Plus they are easily distracted and we don’t know just how good their echolocation is. I have lived in the country for a long time and I can tell you that gun shots don’t travel as far as you think. Trees and grass and dirt are excellent sound absorbers. And in a city, the sound bounces off the buildings and concrete and loses power pretty fast. I bet that you the sound doesn’t travel more than a couple of miles and at that distance it would be VERY difficult to determine an originating source. Besides the gunfire was at the school. It was 5 miles away but who knows what direction. That greatly expands the search radius.
We don’t know. But Ft. Benning is only 100 or so miles away, so presumably less than half of that. 40-45 miles maybe? That is probably far enough away from Atlanta to have farms like that. I would assume that the herd came from the small town or a neighboring village NOT Atlanta. But there is no way to know. Maybe they are from Hackensack.
I think that they might have gotten dispersed. We know that several walkers got distracted and went off on their own way. Did we see them walk off in a cohort?
Like I said, even if the gun noise isn’t absorbed by the trees and grasses or bounced around the little town, it would still be pretty hard for a basically brain dead creature to pinpoint the source. Especially when SQUIRREL!!!
joew - It seemed to me that they moved off mostly in the same direction when they passed them on the highway.
At least, that was the impression I got.
As far as Atlanta and that herd, I meant the one that attacked the camp in season 1. They probably came from Atlanta.
Not the one that passed them in season 2.
So, let’s give them 1.5 hours to stumble 1 mile.
Even if they just heard some ruckus, maybe the passing herd on the highway. Never know where they went.
That house with lights all on, people talking, trucks driving around, people shooting at deer and children.
If they DID hear something, it would not take them all that terribly long to get there.
All just speculation and guess work. It would have been a shame to waste all that zombie makeup and extras just for the herd on the highway scene.
The real question to me - is why is there even a zombie herd traveling down the highway ?
I would expect to see meandering herds like at the schoolhouse and other population centers - but a random ‘herd’ of zombies walking down the highway ‘going’ somewhere (they were not actively looking for food or responding to sounds - they seem to be much more agitated when in that mode) -
so why were they there? where were they going?
Do they have to be going anywhere specific?
It seems to me like they just follow each other around until something does get their attention, so maybe if enough of them start in one direction, they just follow them out of instinct?
Picking up stragglers along the way, leaving other stragglers behind as they go.
No idea, since it was their first encounter.
In the show.
I’m a B negative blood type in case anyone is interested, we tested ourselves in science class in high school and I’ve never been allowed to forget I have precious, precious B neg running through my veins. There was a little notice put up during a break in the show saying Rick could give up to 40% of his blood. I hope this didn’t spoil anything.
I wouldn’t consider this a spoiler, and it was brought up in talking dead- the idea is that if a zombie sees a group of zombies shuffling along in a direction, they’ll kind of tag along to see what’s up, in case maybe the crowd knows something they don’t. After all a crowd of regular humans will tend to attract other people who wonder what the crowd is all about.
If a group of zombies encounters another group of zombies moving along, they’ll merge in with them, and so on until you get herds of zombies drifting around the countryside. It’s kind of like the weather, but with zombies instead of clouds.
They can, but because of echoes and whatnot, it’s hard to discern the location of the gun being fired.
well, what I was trying to imply with my question - is I wonder if this won’t be a bigger plot point moving along - as in - something is drawing them in a particular direction (live meat, perhaps) or if they are being baited that direction (army making particular noise to draw them to an execution) - while I like the “they may be shambling about in unison just because they can and we need to have random zombie attacks to keep up the tension” as good as anything - If I were writing this, there would be more of a purpose behind it that can be determined and figured out - and possibly used by the survivors.
I believe, Evil Prince Zorte is on the right track, at least based on what Kirkman said, but it wasn’t in the actual episode, so I didn’t know if that was acceptable to discuss anymore.
Heh. My husband asked me why they don’t see to have any zombies lurching around at the farm. My answer?
“Plot.”
Oh, and inthewater, anyone who’s given blood will likely know his/her blood type. And as **salinqmind **said, it’s also a common high school science lab activity. (Not at my high school, but oh well.)
But now that you mention it, I’m pretty sure that my husband and his sister don’t know their blood type. My brother probably does (he’s in the Air Force) as does my sister, maybe (she’s got kids, so I’m assuming they’d have typed her and had the Rh discussion). Dad does for sure; he’s a doctor. Mom maybe. So out of that group of 7, it’s possible that half of us might not know their blood type.
I should know my blood type, as it was typed during my recent surgery and I made a point to ask, but I don’t. A positive, maybe?
I think the girl on the farm porch when Glen and T-dog arrived asked them if they’d closed the gate up the road when they drove it, so it’s possible that the farm has a fence around it, which might explain the lack of zombies shambling about.
Good point, that may be what is happening.
I know everyone’s tired of the Sophia search, but I’m really curious how they will resolve that. It’s dragged on so long that there needs to be a payoff. If they just find her without incident and she’s relatively okay, that will be kind of a let down. If they never find her, I guess that might be realistic, but still a bit disappointing. She might show up all zombied out–that would certainly be dramatic. Or maybe she was found by some other survivors, and they’ll somehow join up with our gang at Herschel’s farm.
Whatever they end up doing, it has now been 2-3 days, right?
A kid with no supplies and likely not much survival knowledge won’t last very long without food and water, even without taking the walking dead into account.
At a certain point, it will either have to be that she is dead, she is undead or she is with someone else.
I have some ideas as to some interesting twists, but that strays into “unacceptable” discussion in this thread now.